waxworks

/waks-wurks/US // ˈwæksˌwɜrks //

蜡像馆,蜡像厂,蜡像制品,蜡像店

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural wax·works.
- : an exhibition of or a museum for displaying wax figures, ornaments, etc.

These waxworks used to be publicly exhibited, after which the cap was passed around for contributions.
Can't cry creaky waxworks any more than you can stinking fish.
Yer never see rich waxworks as 'is butler and 'is four conscientious khaki footmen.
In another day most of them would have been candidates for a waxworks or the formaldehyde of a specimen bottle.
The effigy is of painted wood and is amazingly lifelike, though smacking decidedly of the figures in a waxworks exhibition.